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Linus Torvalds
3d30701b58 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md
* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md: (24 commits)
  md: clean up do_md_stop
  md: fix another deadlock with removing sysfs attributes.
  md: move revalidate_disk() back outside open_mutex
  md/raid10: fix deadlock with unaligned read during resync
  md/bitmap:  separate out loading a bitmap from initialising the structures.
  md/bitmap: prepare for storing write-intent-bitmap via dm-dirty-log.
  md/bitmap: optimise scanning of empty bitmaps.
  md/bitmap: clean up plugging calls.
  md/bitmap: reduce dependence on sysfs.
  md/bitmap: white space clean up and similar.
  md/raid5: export raid5 unplugging interface.
  md/plug: optionally use plugger to unplug an array during resync/recovery.
  md/raid5: add simple plugging infrastructure.
  md/raid5: export is_congested test
  raid5: Don't set read-ahead when there is no queue
  md: add support for raising dm events.
  md: export various start/stop interfaces
  md: split out md_rdev_init
  md: be more careful setting MD_CHANGE_CLEAN
  md/raid5: ensure we create a unique name for kmem_cache when mddev has no gendisk
  ...
2010-08-10 15:38:19 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
7b6d91daee block: unify flags for struct bio and struct request
Remove the current bio flags and reuse the request flags for the bio, too.
This allows to more easily trace the type of I/O from the filesystem
down to the block driver.  There were two flags in the bio that were
missing in the requests:  BIO_RW_UNPLUG and BIO_RW_AHEAD.  Also I've
renamed two request flags that had a superflous RW in them.

Note that the flags are in bio.h despite having the REQ_ name - as
blkdev.h includes bio.h that is the only way to go for now.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07 18:20:39 +02:00
NeilBrown
9f7c222001 md/raid5: export raid5 unplugging interface.
Also remove remaining accesses to ->queue and ->gendisk when ->queue
is NULL (As it is in a DM target).

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26 12:53:10 +10:00
NeilBrown
252ac5221a md/plug: optionally use plugger to unplug an array during resync/recovery.
If an array doesn't have a 'queue' then md_do_sync cannot
unplug it.
In that case it will have a 'plugger', so make that available
to the mddev, and use it to unplug the array if needed.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26 12:53:08 +10:00
NeilBrown
2ac8740151 md/raid5: add simple plugging infrastructure.
md/raid5 uses the plugging infrastructure provided by the block layer
and 'struct request_queue'.  However when we plug raid5 under dm there
is no request queue so we cannot use that.

So create a similar infrastructure that is much lighter weight and use
it for raid5.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26 12:53:08 +10:00
NeilBrown
11d8a6e371 md/raid5: export is_congested test
the dm module will need this for dm-raid45.

Also only access ->queue->backing_dev_info->congested_fn
if ->queue actually exists.  It won't in a dm target.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26 12:52:29 +10:00
NeilBrown
4a5add4995 raid5: Don't set read-ahead when there is no queue
dm-raid456 does not provide a 'queue' for raid5 to use,
so we must make raid5 stop depending on the queue.

First: read_ahead
dm handles read-ahead adjustment fully in userspace, so
simply don't do any readahead adjustments if there is
no queue.

Also re-arrange code slightly so all the accesses to ->queue are
together.

Finally, move the blk_queue_merge_bvec function into the 'if' as
the ->split_io setting in dm-raid456 has the same effect.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26 12:52:27 +10:00
NeilBrown
f4be6b43f1 md/raid5: ensure we create a unique name for kmem_cache when mddev has no gendisk
We will shortly allow md devices with no gendisk (they are attached to
a dm-target instead).  That will cause mdname() to return 'mdX'.
There is one place where mdname really needs to be unique: when
creating the name for a slab cache.
So in that case, if there is no gendisk, you the address of the mddev
formatted in HEX to provide a unique name.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26 12:52:26 +10:00
NeilBrown
c41d4ac40d md/raid5: factor out code for changing size of stripe cache.
Separate the actual 'change' code from the sysfs interface
so that it can eventually be called internally.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-21 13:28:15 +10:00
NeilBrown
00bcb4ac7e md: reduce dependence on sysfs.
We will want md devices to live as dm targets where sysfs is not
visible.  So allow md to not connect to sysfs.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-21 13:27:53 +10:00
NeilBrown
3424bf6a77 md/raid5: don't include 'spare' drives when reshaping to fewer devices.
There are few situations where it would make any sense to add a spare
when reducing the number of devices in an array, but it is
conceivable:  A 6 drive RAID6 with two missing devices could be
reshaped to a 5 drive RAID6, and a spare could become available
just in time for the reshape, but not early enough to have been
recovered first.  'freezing' recovery can make this easy to
do without any races.

However doing such a thing is a bad idea.  md will not record the
partially-recovered state of the 'spare' and when the reshape
finished it will think that the spare is still spare.
Easiest way to avoid this confusion is to simply disallow it.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-06-24 13:36:04 +10:00
NeilBrown
2f11588249 md/raid5: add a missing 'continue' in a loop.
As the comment says, the tail of this loop only applies to devices
that are not fully in sync, so if In_sync was set, we should avoid
the rest of the loop.

This bug will hardly ever cause an actual problem.  The worst it
can do is allow an array to be assembled that is dirty and degraded,
which is not generally a good idea (without warning the sysadmin
first).

This will only happen if the array is RAID4 or a RAID5/6 in an
intermediate state during a reshape and so has one drive that is
all 'parity' - no data - while some other device has failed.

This is certainly possible, but not at all common.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-06-24 13:35:49 +10:00
NeilBrown
415e72d034 md/raid5: Allow recovered part of partially recovered devices to be in-sync
During a recovery of reshape the early part of some devices might be
in-sync while the later parts are not.
We we know we are looking at an early part it is good to treat that
part as in-sync for stripe calculations.

This is particularly important for a reshape which suffers device
failure.  Treating the data as in-sync can mean the difference between
data-safety and data-loss.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-06-24 13:35:39 +10:00
NeilBrown
674806d62f md/raid5: More careful check for "has array failed".
When we are reshaping an array, the device failure combinations
that cause us to decide that the array as failed are more subtle.

In particular, any 'spare' will be fully in-sync in the section
of the array that has already been reshaped, thus failures that
affect only that section are less critical.

So encode this subtlety in a new function and call it as appropriate.

The case that showed this problem was a 4 drive RAID5 to 8 drive RAID6
conversion where the last two devices failed.
This resulted in:

  good good good good incomplete good good failed failed

while converting a 5-drive RAID6 to 8 drive RAID5
The incomplete device causes the whole array to look bad,
bad as it was actually good for the section that had been
converted to 8-drives, all the data was actually safe.

Reported-by: Terry Morris <tbmorris@tbmorris.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-06-24 13:35:27 +10:00
NeilBrown
70fffd0bfa md: Don't update ->recovery_offset when reshaping an array to fewer devices.
When an array is reshaped to have fewer devices, the reshape proceeds
from the end of the devices to the beginning.

If a device happens to be non-In_sync (which is possible but rare)
we would normally update the ->recovery_offset as the reshape
progresses. However that would be wrong as the recover_offset records
that the early part of the device is in_sync, while in fact it would
only be the later part that is in_sync, and in any case the offset
number would be measured from the wrong end of the device.

Relatedly, if after a reshape a spare is discovered to not be
recoverred all the way to the end, not allow spare_active
to incorporate it in the array.

This becomes relevant in the following sample scenario:

A 4 drive RAID5 is converted to a 6 drive RAID6 in a combined
operation.
The RAID5->RAID6 conversion will cause a 5 drive to be included as a
spare, then the 5drive -> 6drive reshape will effectively rebuild that
spare as it progresses.  The 6th drive is treated as in_sync the whole
time as there is never any case that we might consider reading from
it, but must not because there is no valid data.

If we interrupt this reshape part-way through and reverse it to return
to a 5-drive RAID6 (or event a 4-drive RAID5), we don't want to update
the recovery_offset - as that would be wrong - and we don't want to
include that spare as active in the 5-drive RAID6 when the reversed
reshape completed and it will be mostly out-of-sync still.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-06-24 13:35:18 +10:00
NeilBrown
e4e11e385d md/raid5: avoid oops when number of devices is reduced then increased.
The entries in the stripe_cache maintained by raid5 are enlarged
when we increased the number of devices in the array, but not
shrunk when we reduce the number of devices.
So if entries are added after reducing the number of devices, we
much ensure to initialise the whole entry, not just the part that
is currently relevant.  Otherwise if we enlarge the array again,
we will reference uninitialised values.

As grow_buffers/shrink_buffer now want to use a count that is stored
explicity in the raid_conf, they should get it from there rather than
being passed it as a parameter.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-06-24 13:35:02 +10:00
Akinobu Mita
55af6bb509 md: convert cpu notifier to return encapsulate errno value
By the previous modification, the cpu notifier can return encapsulate
errno value.  This converts the cpu notifiers for raid5.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27 09:12:48 -07:00
NeilBrown
19fdb9eefb Merge commit '3ff195b011d7decf501a4d55aeed312731094796' into for-linus
Conflicts:
	drivers/md/md.c

- Resolved conflict in md_update_sb
- Added extra 'NULL' arg to new instance of sysfs_get_dirent.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-05-22 08:31:36 +10:00
Gabriele A. Trombetti
7b0bb5368a md/raid6: Fix raid-6 read-error correction in degraded state
Fix: Raid-6 was not trying to correct a read-error when in
singly-degraded state and was instead dropping one more device, going to
doubly-degraded state. This patch fixes this behaviour.

Tested-by: Janos Haar <janos.haar@netcenter.hu>
Signed-off-by: Gabriele A. Trombetti <g.trombetti.lkrnl1213@logicschema.com>
Reported-by: Janos Haar <janos.haar@netcenter.hu>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2010-05-18 15:28:00 +10:00
NeilBrown
0c55e02259 md/raid5: improve consistency of error messages.
Many 'printk' messages from the raid456 module mention 'raid5' even
though it may be a 'raid6' or even 'raid4' array.  This can cause
confusion.
Also the actual array name is not always reported and when it is
it is not reported consistently.

So change all the messages to start:
    md/raid:%s:
where '%s' becomes e.g. md3 to identify the particular array.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-05-18 15:27:58 +10:00
Dan Williams
f1b29bcae1 md/raid4: permit raid0 takeover
For consistency allow raid4 to takeover raid0 in addition to raid5 (with a
raid4 layout).

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2010-05-18 15:27:57 +10:00
NeilBrown
21a52c6d05 md: pass mddev to make_request functions rather than request_queue
We used to pass the personality make_request function direct
to the block layer so the first argument had to be a queue.
But now we have the intermediary md_make_request so it makes
at lot more sense to pass a struct mddev_s.
It makes it possible to have an mddev without its own queue too.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-05-18 15:27:55 +10:00
NeilBrown
b821eaa572 md: remove ->changed and related code.
We set ->changed to 1 and call check_disk_change at the end
of md_open so that bd_invalidated would be set and thus
partition rescan would happen appropriately.

Now that we call revalidate_disk directly, which sets bd_invalidates,
that indirection is no longer needed and can be removed.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-05-18 15:27:53 +10:00
NeilBrown
490773268c md: move io accounting out of personalities into md_make_request
While I generally prefer letting personalities do as much as possible,
given that we have a central md_make_request anyway we may as well use
it to simplify code.
Also this centralises knowledge of ->gendisk which will help later.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-05-18 15:27:52 +10:00
NeilBrown
2b7f22284d md/raid5: small tidyup in raid5_align_endio
Diving through ->queue to find mddev is unnecessarily complex - there
is an easier path to finding mddev, so use that.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-05-18 15:27:50 +10:00
NeilBrown
a78d38a1a1 md: add support for raid5 to raid4 conversion
This is unlikely to be wanted, but we may as well provide it
for completeness.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-05-18 15:27:49 +10:00
Trela Maciej
54071b3808 md:Add support for Raid0->Raid5 takeover
Signed-off-by: Maciej Trela <maciej.trela@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-05-18 15:27:47 +10:00
H Hartley Sweeten
7b92813c3c drivers/md: Remove unnecessary casts of void *
void pointers do not need to be cast to other pointer types.

Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-05-18 15:27:46 +10:00
NeilBrown
a64c876fd3 md: manage redundancy group in sysfs when changing level.
Some levels expect the 'redundancy group' to be present,
others don't.
So when we change level of an array we might need to
add or remove this group.

This requires fixing up the current practice of overloading ->private
to indicate (when ->pers == NULL) that something needs to be removed.
So create a new ->to_remove to fill that role.

When changing levels, we may need to add or remove attributes.  When
changing RAID5 -> RAID6, we both add and remove the same thing.  It is
important to catch this and optimise it out as the removal is delayed
until a lock is released, so trying to add immediately would cause
problems.


Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-05-17 14:45:40 +10:00
Gabriele A. Trombetti
87aa63000c md/raid6: Fix raid-6 read-error correction in degraded state
Fix: Raid-6 was not trying to correct a read-error when in
singly-degraded state and was instead dropping one more device, going to
doubly-degraded state. This patch fixes this behaviour.

Tested-by: Janos Haar <janos.haar@netcenter.hu>
Signed-off-by: Gabriele A. Trombetti <g.trombetti.lkrnl1213@logicschema.com>
Reported-by: Janos Haar <janos.haar@netcenter.hu>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2010-05-07 21:10:35 +10:00
NeilBrown
6e3b96ed61 md/raid5: fix previous patch.
Previous patch changes stripe and chunk_number to sector_t but
mistakenly did not update all of the divisions to use sector_dev().

This patch changes all the those divisions (actually the '%' operator)
to sector_div.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Tested-by: Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.l-h@gmx.de>
2010-04-23 07:08:28 +10:00
NeilBrown
35f2a59119 md/raid5: allow for more than 2^31 chunks.
With many large drives and small chunk sizes it is possible
to create a RAID5 with more than 2^31 chunks.  Make sure this
works.

Reported-by: Brett King <king.br@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2010-04-20 14:13:34 +10:00
Tejun Heo
5a0e3ad6af include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
Linus Torvalds
0a135ba14d Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
  percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to what's left
  percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to fs
  percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to core kernel subsystems
  local_t: Remove leftover local.h
  this_cpu: Remove pageset_notifier
  this_cpu: Page allocator conversion
  percpu, x86: Generic inc / dec percpu instructions
  local_t: Move local.h include to ringbuffer.c and ring_buffer_benchmark.c
  module: Use this_cpu_xx to dynamically allocate counters
  local_t: Remove cpu_local_xx macros
  percpu: refactor the code in pcpu_[de]populate_chunk()
  percpu: remove compile warnings caused by __verify_pcpu_ptr()
  percpu: make accessors check for percpu pointer in sparse
  percpu: add __percpu for sparse.
  percpu: make access macros universal
  percpu: remove per_cpu__ prefix.
2010-03-03 07:34:18 -08:00
Martin K. Petersen
8a78362c4e block: Consolidate phys_segment and hw_segment limits
Except for SCSI no device drivers distinguish between physical and
hardware segment limits.  Consolidate the two into a single segment
limit.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-02-26 13:58:08 +01:00
Tejun Heo
a29d8b8e2d percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to what's left
Add __percpu sparse annotations to places which didn't make it in one
of the previous patches.  All converions are trivial.

These annotations are to make sparse consider percpu variables to be
in a different address space and warn if accessed without going
through percpu accessors.  This patch doesn't affect normal builds.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-02-17 11:17:38 +09:00
NeilBrown
ef286f6fa6 md: fix some lockdep issues between md and sysfs.
======
This fix is related to
    http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15142
but does not address that exact issue.
======

sysfs does like attributes being removed while they are being accessed
(i.e. read or written) and waits for the access to complete.

As accessing some md attributes takes the same lock that is held while
removing those attributes a deadlock can occur.

This patch addresses 3 issues in md that could lead to this deadlock.

Two relate to calling flush_scheduled_work while the lock is held.
This is probably a bad idea in general and as we use schedule_work to
delete various sysfs objects it is particularly bad.

In one case flush_scheduled_work is called from md_alloc (called by
md_probe) called from do_md_run which holds the lock.  This call is
only present to ensure that ->gendisk is set.  However we can be sure
that gendisk is always set (though possibly we couldn't when that code
was originally written.  This is because do_md_run is called in three
different contexts:
  1/ from md_ioctl.  This requires that md_open has succeeded, and it
     fails if ->gendisk is not set.
  2/ from writing a sysfs attribute.  This can only happen if the
     mddev has been registered in sysfs which happens in md_alloc
     after ->gendisk has been set.
  3/ from autorun_array which is only called by autorun_devices, which
     checks for ->gendisk to be set before calling autorun_array.
So the call to md_probe in do_md_run can be removed, and the check on
->gendisk can also go.


In the other case flush_scheduled_work is being called in do_md_stop,
purportedly to wait for all md_delayed_delete calls (which delete the
component rdevs) to complete.  However there really isn't any need to
wait for them - they have already been disconnected in all important
ways.

The third issue is that raid5->stop() removes some attribute names
while the lock is held.  There is already some infrastructure in place
to delay attribute removal until after the lock is released (using
schedule_work).  So extend that infrastructure to remove the
raid5_attrs_group.

This does not address all lockdep issues related to the sysfs
"s_active" lock.  The rest can be address by splitting that lockdep
context between symlinks and non-symlinks which hopefully will happen.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-02-10 11:26:09 +11:00
NeilBrown
9eb07c2592 md: fix 'degraded' calculation when starting a reshape.
This code was written long ago when it was not possible to
reshape a degraded array.  Now it is so the current level of
degraded-ness needs to be taken in to account.  Also newly addded
devices should only reduce degradedness if they are deemed to be
in-sync.

In particular, if you convert a RAID5 to a RAID6, and increase the
number of devices at the same time, then the 5->6 conversion will
make the array degraded so the current code will produce a wrong
value for 'degraded' - "-1" to be precise.

If the reshape runs to completion end_reshape will calculate a correct
new value for 'degraded', but if a device fails during the reshape an
incorrect decision might be made based on the incorrect value of
"degraded".

This patch is suitable for 2.6.32-stable and if they are still open,
2.6.31-stable and 2.6.30-stable as well.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Michael Evans <mjevans1983@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-02-09 16:34:29 +11:00
NeilBrown
0efb9e6191 md: add MODULE_DESCRIPTION for all md related modules.
Suggested by  Oren Held <orenhe@il.ibm.com>

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-12-14 12:51:41 +11:00
NeilBrown
729a18663a md/raid5: don't complete make_request on barrier until writes are scheduled
The post-barrier-flush is sent by md as soon as make_request on the
barrier write completes.  For raid5, the data might not be in the
per-device queues yet.  So for barrier requests, wait for any
pre-reading to be done so that the request will be in the per-device
queues.

We use the 'preread_active' count to check that nothing is still in
the preread phase, and delay the decrement of this count until after
write requests have been submitted to the underlying devices.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-12-14 12:51:40 +11:00
NeilBrown
a2826aa92e md: support barrier requests on all personalities.
Previously barriers were only supported on RAID1.  This is because
other levels requires synchronisation across all devices and so needed
a different approach.
Here is that approach.

When a barrier arrives, we send a zero-length barrier to every active
device.  When that completes - and if the original request was not
empty -  we submit the barrier request itself (with the barrier flag
cleared) and then submit a fresh load of zero length barriers.

The barrier request itself is asynchronous, but any subsequent
request will block until the barrier completes.

The reason for clearing the barrier flag is that a barrier request is
allowed to fail.  If we pass a non-empty barrier through a striping
raid level it is conceivable that part of it could succeed and part
could fail.  That would be way too hard to deal with.
So if the first run of zero length barriers succeed, we assume all is
sufficiently well that we send the request and ignore errors in the
second run of barriers.

RAID5 needs extra care as write requests may not have been submitted
to the underlying devices yet.  So we flush the stripe cache before
proceeding with the barrier.

Note that the second set of zero-length barriers are submitted
immediately after the original request is submitted.  Thus when
a personality finds mddev->barrier to be set during make_request,
it should not return from make_request until the corresponding
per-device request(s) have been queued.

That will be done in later patches.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
2009-12-14 12:49:49 +11:00
NeilBrown
8553fe7ec7 md/raid5: remove some sparse warnings.
qd_idx is previously declared and given exactly the same value!

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-12-14 12:49:47 +11:00
NeilBrown
c148ffdcda md/raid5: Allow dirty-degraded arrays to be assembled when only party is degraded.
Normally is it not safe to allow a raid5 that is both dirty and
degraded to be assembled without explicit request from that admin, as
it can cause hidden data corruption.
This is because 'dirty' means that the parity cannot be trusted, and
'degraded' means that the parity needs to be used.

However, if the device that is missing contains only parity, then
there is no issue and assembly can continue.
This particularly applies when a RAID5 is being converted to a RAID6
and there is an unclean shutdown while the conversion is happening.

So check for whether the degraded space only contains parity, and
in that case, allow the assembly.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-11-13 17:47:00 +11:00
NeilBrown
7ef90146a1 Don't unconditionally set in_sync on newly added device in raid5_reshape
When a reshape finds that it can add spare devices into the array,
those devices might already be 'in_sync' if they are beyond the old
size of the array, or they might not if they are within the array.

The first case happens when we change an N-drive RAID5 to an
N+1-drive RAID5.
The second happens when we convert an N-drive RAID5 to an
N+1-drive RAID6.

So set the flag more carefully.
Also, ->recovery_offset is only meaningful when the flag is clear,
so only set it in that case.

This change needs the preceding two to ensure that the non-in_sync
device doesn't get evicted from the array when it is stopped, in the
case where v0.90 metadata is used.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-11-13 17:40:51 +11:00
NeilBrown
8dee721146 md/raid5: make sure curr_sync_completes is uptodate when reshape starts
This value is visible through sysfs and is used by mdadm
when it manages a reshape (backing up data that is about to be
rearranged).  So it is important that it is always correct.
Current it does not get updated properly when a reshape
starts which can cause problems when assembling an array
that is in the middle of being reshaped.

This is suitable for 2.6.31.y stable kernels.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-11-06 14:59:29 +11:00
Dan Williams
6629542e79 md/raid6: kill a gcc-4.0.1 'uninitialized variable' warning
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2009-10-19 18:09:41 -07:00
NeilBrown
5dd33c9a4c md/async: don't pass a memory pointer as a page pointer.
md/raid6 passes a list of 'struct page *' to the async_tx routines,
which then either DMA map them for offload, or take the page_address
for CPU based calculations.

For RAID6 we sometime leave 'blanks' in the list of pages.
For CPU based calcs, we want to treat theses as a page of zeros.
For offloaded calculations, we simply don't pass a page to the
hardware.

Currently the 'blanks' are encoded as a pointer to
raid6_empty_zero_page.  This is a 4096 byte memory region, not a
'struct page'.  This is mostly handled correctly but is rather ugly.

So change the code to pass and expect a NULL pointer for the blanks.
When taking page_address of a page, we need to check for a NULL and
in that case use raid6_empty_zero_page.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-10-16 16:40:25 +11:00
NeilBrown
5e5e3e78ed md: Fix handling of raid5 array which is being reshaped to fewer devices.
When a raid5 (or raid6) array is being reshaped to have fewer devices,
conf->raid_disks is the latter and hence smaller number of devices.
However sometimes we want to use a number which is the total number of
currently required devices - the larger of the 'old' and 'new' sizes.
Before we implemented reducing the number of devices, this was always
'new' i.e. ->raid_disks.
Now we need max(raid_disks, previous_raid_disks) in those places.

This particularly affects assembling an array that was shutdown while
in the middle of a reshape to fewer devices.

md.c needs a similar fix when interpreting the md metadata.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-10-16 16:35:30 +11:00
NeilBrown
e4424fee18 md: fix problems with RAID6 calculations for DDF.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-10-16 16:27:34 +11:00
Dan Williams
417b8d4ac8 md/raid456: downlevel multicore operations to raid_run_ops
The percpu conversion allowed a straightforward handoff of stripe
processing to the async subsytem that initially showed some modest gains
(+4%).  However, this model is too simplistic and leads to stripes
bouncing between raid5d and the async thread pool for every invocation
of handle_stripe().  As reported by Holger this can fall into a
pathological situation severely impacting throughput (6x performance
loss).

By downleveling the parallelism to raid_run_ops the pathological
stripe_head bouncing is eliminated.  This version still exhibits an
average 11% throughput loss for:

	mdadm --create /dev/md0 /dev/sd[b-q] -n 16 -l 6
	echo 1024 > /sys/block/md0/md/stripe_cache_size
	dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/md0 bs=1024k count=2048

...but the results are at least stable and can be used as a base for
further multicore experimentation.

Reported-by: Holger Kiehl <Holger.Kiehl@dwd.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-10-16 16:25:22 +11:00